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This is similar to another question I posted:
http://communities.ptc.com/message/259618#259618
I am trying to make a sheetmetal part. In this situation, I started in sheetmetal and have the shape that I am looking for, but now I want to give the part thickness. How would this be accomplished.
Thanks, Dale
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The method described by Steven in this thread:
http://communities.ptc.com/message/259669#259669
is the method that I ended up using and it worked well.
Thanks all for the quick tutorial on surfaces, thickening and sheetmetal.
Dale
I forgot to mention that the large flat surface is tapered from the tall vertical sides and gets narrow toward the small vertial sides.
This is the beauty of being able to work in the flat with extrudes while in sheetmetal mode. I can optimize the punch setup by having long shear lengths and only 1 angle square punch. Of course, laser cutting doesn't have this limitation, but a lot of shops are still punching as their primary production process. If your design can tolerate these variances, this is certainly a good reason to use sheetmetal for parts that are not simply "cubical".
I still find many operations in sheetmetal limiting, but this is one thing that does provide significant freedom.
The method described by Steven in this thread:
http://communities.ptc.com/message/259669#259669
is the method that I ended up using and it worked well.
Thanks all for the quick tutorial on surfaces, thickening and sheetmetal.
Dale
I hope PTC is paying attention to this thread.
Why do in sheetmetal what actually works in solid modeling and convert it after the fact